BOOTS FOR UNEMPLOYED.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 May 1933, Page 5

BOOTS FOR UNEMPLOYED.

SHARE OF 'ORDERS GOES TO DUNEDIN. RETAILERS INVITED TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS FOR CHILDREN’S FOOTWEAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ' - DUNEDIN, Friday. Before going north this moping, Mr iWalter Bromley, of the Unemployment Board, stated that he had /completed arrangements in Dunedin for 6000 1 pairs of working boots, and the manufacturers had assured him that these orders would mean plumbing the market for raw material and skilled labour, which was further .proof that it -was a demand additional to the ordinary market and non-existent prior to ' the Board ’s intervention. Mr Bromley repeated for general •dissemination a statement that he had just made to the manufacturers —namely, that the Board dbes not desire tp interfere with the ordinary channels of industry. If the retailers, through ■their national association, could show the Board how it could work through "the retail stores while still maintaining the same advantage to the unemployed and allowing 10 per cent, for handling, the Board would give careful consideration to any proposals c6n- " cerning boys’ and girls’ footwear that showed how distribution could be carried out for an additional 10 per cent, on cost.